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Originally Posted by Martyd
Maybe this thread is the novel. I sure have spent a lot of time reading it.  |
I found the ebook to be tedious. The villain, a large internet merchandiser, lacked motivation, and was simply presented as a faceless institution acting for unknowable reasons. This attempt to channel Kafka failed primarily because the protagonist never completely engaged my sympathy.
The plot contains many factual inconsistencies, which might have been explained but were never addressed. To the extent that the facts could be known, the behavior of the agents of the villain were portrayed as concealing them for no reason. This did not advance the plotline toward any understandable resolution.
In fact, it appears that the author reached the same conclusion, and decided to end the story with a bit of
deus ex machina that defies the experience of this reader.
In short, this ebook would have benefitted greatly from the services of an editor, which sadly demonstrates one of the big failings of the new digital publishing environment.